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Torn a' Ma Goon/ Captain Ross

from This Side Of The Ocean by The Friends of Fiddler’s Green

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Torn a' Ma Goon was learned by Jim from the singing of Jimmy McBeath of Morayshire. The chorus is a fine example of “diddling" - a kind of mouth music used for dancing when no instruments were available to play for the dancers. Jimmy McBeath described this as a children's song (You might not know it from the subject matter, which is delightfully bawdy). This is a song from a lusty generation!

Glossary: (If you don't know what this song is about, a glossary is hardly going to help you. However, here goes.)

Goon - gown
Ill-tricket - badly behaved
The day - today
The morn - tomorrow
Bullied - "impregnated"
Kye - cows, cattle
Ava' - at all
Hotchit - hoisted
Ca' awa'! - go ahead!

Captain Ross was learned from the Battlefield Band who play it in the Northumbrian piper's key of F. We've switched it to D.

lyrics

Chorus:

He's torn a', rippit a', torn a' ma goon (3 times)
Did ever you see sic' an ill-trickit loon?

Oh, the broon coo's broken oot and eaten a' the corn (3 times)
If she disnae eat it a' the day, she'll eat it a' the morn.

Oh the black bull's broken oot and bullied a' the kye (3 times)
If he disnae bull them a' the day he'll bull them by and by.

Oh she widna dae't, she widna dae't, she widna dae't ava'
In the bed or oot the bed or up agin' the wa'
Oh. but she did it on the pantry flair, the best ye ever saw
She hotchit up her petticoat and cried, "ca' awa'!"

credits

from This Side Of The Ocean, released December 28, 2021
Jim - Lead vocals • Laurence - Fiddle, chorus • Tam - Guitar, chorus • Alistair - Jews harp, chorus • Dave - Chorus • Grit - Long-necked mandolin, chorus • lan - Concertina, chorus

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Laurence Stevenson Brighton, Ontario

Having been born in Scotland and moved to Canada in my high school years, my life has followed parallel (but musically related) paths.
A career in radio, firstly as a radio news tech then a sound effects guy to creator of the CBC Radio Experimental Audio Room and finally as an international award winning radio producer for the popular show, Outfront, has been tracked alongside a life as a fiddler. ... more

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